Django 1.8 - what's the difference between migrate and makemigrations?

Question

According to the documentation here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/migrations/ it says:

migrate, which is responsible for applying migrations, as          


        

Answer 1

According the Polls tutorial:

1. python manage.py makemigrations : Create the migrations (generate the SQL commands).

2. python manage.py migrate: Run the migrations (execute the SQL commands).